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My Most Embarrassing Moments in College and at Work
It’s funny how bad and embarrassing memories can be seared into your brain no matter how much you want to forget them. Like that time I almost killed a baby.
Thanks to LinkedIn, I’ve recently reconnected with my Acting 101 teacher from my university days. Robin was a Theatre graduate student when I was an undergrad in the School of Fine Arts at UC Irvine 40 years ago. We lost touch after my graduation, but over the years I would think of her whenever I recalled “the incident.” It was my most embarrassing moment in college.
It happened on a late fall morning, near the end of the semester, when before acting class a group of us — acting students — were goofing around on the main stage of the University Theatre. Robin was sitting on the apron (the front of the stage) facing the seats, chatting with another student while her one-month-old infant Benjamin slept peacefully in a baby stroller beside her.
I was upstage with a couple of guys. Somehow the topic came to baseball and we began to play a game of “pepper” using a wad of notebook paper for a ball and my book bag for a bat. One guy was pitching and I was hitting.
Now, this book bag was not a backpack. It was more like a valise without a handle. So it was hard to keep a good grip on it. I remember my book bag was kind of heavy…
